@article{fdi:010080535, title = {{W}est {A}sian colonisation of topmouth gudgeon, {P}seudorasbora parva ({T}eleostei : {G}obionidae) : genetic admixture at the crossroad of {E}urope and east {A}sia}, author = {{G}anjali, {Z}. and {E}smaeili, {H}. {R}. and {Z}arei, {F}. and {S}ayyadzadeh, {G}. and {E}agderi, {S}. and {G}ozlan, {R}odolphe}, editor = {}, language = {{ENG}}, abstract = {{I}ran is a major freshwater fish diversity hotspot in the {M}iddle {E}ast, and is an important zoogeographical area in west {A}sia, acting as the crossroads and dispersal corridor between several major biogeographical realms of the world. {T}he topmouth gudgeon, {P}seudorasbora parva was first recorded in {I}ran on 6 {M}ay 1991 in the {C}aspian {S}ea basin and is now widely distributed across the country. {D}espite widespread distribution in the {I}ranian inland waters, its invasion history and genetic background remain unknown. {H}ere, based on the mitochondrial {DNA} control region (806 bp) sequence variation of 161 {P}. parva samples collected from 15 {I}ranian localities and additional sites in {E}urope and {A}sia, as well as a cytochrome c oxidase subunit {I} barcode database (615 bp) including 166 novel and archived sequences, we characterised the pattern of genetic diversity and its colonisation history in {I}ran. {O}ur results show the presence of three matrilineal haplotypes in {I}ran belonging to two distinct lineages: (1) a widespread lineage with a common haplotype found throughout the country and one exclusive haplotype confined to the {M}ashkid basin, whose origin can be traced back to a single introduction of a small number of propagules from {J}apan and corresponded to the {I}ranian introduction of {P}. parva in the late 1980s; (2) a {C}hinese lineage represented by a single haplotype found in the {S}hafarood {R}iver of the {C}aspian {S}ea basin but also translocated to central {I}ran, penetrated recently to northern {I}ran through natural dispersal from {A}zerbaijan as an extension of the {E}uropean wave of invasion. {A}t the global scale, there is less genetic diversity in west {A}sia than in {E}urope and the {A}sian native range. {A}t the local scale, estimates of genetic diversity in {I}ranian {P}. parva populations are extremely low but the {C}aspian {S}ea and {E}sfahan basins gained higher diversities from admixture of highly divergent {J}apanese and {C}hinese lineages. {O}ur phylogenetic and species delimitation analyses also suggest the existence of multiple putative species in the native range of {P}. parva and stress the need of an integrative taxonomical approach based on additional morphological and nuclear {DNA} data.}, keywords = {biological invasions ; colonisation history ; genetic diversity ; {I}ran ; mitochondrial {DNA} ; {IRAN} ; {EUROPE} ; {ASIE} {EST}}, booktitle = {}, journal = {{F}reshwater {B}iology}, volume = {66}, numero = {4}, pages = {699--715}, ISSN = {0046-5070}, year = {2021}, DOI = {10.1111/fwb.13671}, URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010080535}, }